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I prefer to get my fats in desserts.

CHOCOLATE ORANGE CHEESECAKE

Ingredients 1 3/4 cups Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Baking Chips 6 ounces shortbread cookies, crushed 1/4 cup butter, melted 16 ounces cream cheese (for filling) 1 3/4 cups sugar (for filling) 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate (for filling) 3 large eggs (for filling) 1 1/ 2 cups sour cream (for topping) 6 tablespoons sugar (for topping) 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate (for topping)

Crust: Preheat oven to 325°F. Combine cookies and butter with a fork. Press into bottom of a 9-inch spring form pan and slightly up the sides. Bake 15 minutes. Cool.

Filling: Melt 1 ½ cups chocolate chips at 30-second intervals, stirring after every 30 seconds until melted. Cool.Beat cream cheese and 1-3/4 cups sugar until smooth. Add 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips, 1/3 cup orange juice, and eggs, one at a time. Pour into crust, and bake 50 minutes. Cool 10 minutes.

Topping: Mix sour cream, 6 tablespoons sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate together. Spread over cake. Drizzle remaining 1/4 cup melted chocolate chips over. Bake 5 minutes. Turn off heat, and cool in the oven with the door slightly open for 30 minutes.

Place in refrigerator overnight before serving.

21 posted on 01/25/2018 3:15:33 PM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 Trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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The sugar in your Chocolate Orange Cheesecake—1 3/4 cups sugar (for filling), 1/3 cup orange juice concentrate (for filling), 6 tablespoons sugar (for topping) and 2 tablespoons orange juice concentrate (for topping)—will cause an insulin spike which is worse than the fats used to make it.


27 posted on 01/25/2018 3:25:26 PM PST by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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Oh my that looks wonderful, thanks for posting the recipe! Will try it soon.


54 posted on 01/25/2018 5:22:18 PM PST by exbrit
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